> I wouldn't try to "understand" a restaurant that served my cochroaches in my pizza, I'd just avoid it and bad mouth it to everybody I know.
This is Hacker News, where we like to "understand" enormous failures, even if we don't have "patience and understanding" for them.
I think the point of the people talking about the technical glitch, is to counter everyone saying "BTC is perfectly frictionless, therefore if Gox can't give me BTC they must not have any!" nullc/gmaxwell gives credible technical explanations for why spending thousands of BTC in daily volume from various sources through a volume-necessitated custom implementation of Bitcoin, can actually be non-trivial. You're free to think Gox is incompetent, or that the pizzeria is unclean, but that doesn't mean you can't have interest in how they got that way.
This is Hacker News, where we like to "understand" enormous failures, even if we don't have "patience and understanding" for them.
I think the point of the people talking about the technical glitch, is to counter everyone saying "BTC is perfectly frictionless, therefore if Gox can't give me BTC they must not have any!" nullc/gmaxwell gives credible technical explanations for why spending thousands of BTC in daily volume from various sources through a volume-necessitated custom implementation of Bitcoin, can actually be non-trivial. You're free to think Gox is incompetent, or that the pizzeria is unclean, but that doesn't mean you can't have interest in how they got that way.